Impossible Exchange

Everything starts out from impossible exchange. The uncertainty of the worldlies in the fact that it has no equivalent anywhere it cannot be exchanged foranythi... » 

Everything starts out from impossible exchange. The uncertainty of the worldlies in the fact that it has no equivalent anywhere it cannot be exchanged foranything. The uncertainty of thought lies in the fact that it cannot beexchanged either for truth or for reality.Jean Baudrillards now familiarinvestigations into reality and hyperreality shift here into a moremetaphysical frame. Working his way through the various spheres and systems ofeveryday life the political the juridical the economical the aestheticthe biological among others he finds that they are all characterised by thesame nonequivalence and hence the same eccentricity. Literally they have nomeaning outside themselves and cannot be exchanged for anything. Politics isladen with signs and meanings but seen from the outside it has no meaning.Schemes for genetic experimentation and investigation are becoming infinitelyramified and the more ramified they become the more the crucial question isleft unanswered who rules over life who rules over death?Baudrillardsconclusion is that the true formula of contemporary nihilism lies here thenihilism of value itself. This is our fate and from this stem both thehappiest and the most baleful consequences. This book might be said to be theexploration first of the fateful consequences and subsequently by apoetic transference of situation of the fortunate happy consequences ofimpossible exchange. «